If you’re a resident of the UK you’ll have heard of the ‘5 portions of fruit or veg’ campaign oft trumpeted by the government. Well now the tea council of the UK has got in on the act by unleashing the Tea 4 Health campaign!
By drinking 4 or more cups of tea per day its believed to have numerous health benefits. You can sign up for updates and news from the Tea Council as part of this campaigns aim to educate the masses on the great benefits of regular tea drinking.
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Bald Mice Cured by Tea?
Well as much as I’d like to believe it I don’t think I’ll grab this tea-based baldness cure off eBay.
It did make me look a bit further into it and it looks like it MAY do something – though not much! I read over at the Hair Loss Buddy blog that:
There are two types of this enzyme, cunningly named Type I and Type II. The Type II enzyme is the hair killing critter, yet a recent study showed that green tea only blocked the Type I enzyme.
Absolutely gutted – but still! It just goes to show that tea does have a hell of a lot of different properties and we’re still discovering things it can do to this day.
Anyway – if anyone does have a cure for baldness then don’t hesitate to get in touch (for the mouse of course! 
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Well we’ve had two recent news stories on caffeines health properties and they’ve been contrary to previous items suggesting caffeine is the 8th sin of the world.
Firstly we’re told caffeine can actually help to boost memory and helps focus. This was found after MRI scans were conducted on people shortly hafter drinking a caffeinated beverage such as coffee or tea.
The next story was one that linked liver-protectice properties to caffeine and this suggested 2-cups a day of either tea or coffee could help prevent liver disease.
So next time don’t feel guilty when someone ‘tuts’ at how many cups a day you have!
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Just found an interesting article regarding tea and its caffeine content. Summarry: Caffeine in tea is a good thing.
http://greentealovers.com/wordpress/
They found oral administration of green or black tea inhibited UVB light-induced complete carcinogenesis in the skin of SKH-1 mice(1). Green tea was a more effective inhibitor than black tea. Oral administration of decaffeinated green or black tea resulted in substantially less inhibitory activity than did administration of the regular teas, and in one experiment, administration of a high-dose level of the decaffeinated teas enhanced the tumorigenic effect of UVB. Oral administration of caffeine alone had a substantial inhibitory effect on UVB-induced carcinogenesis, and adding caffeine to the decaffeinated teas restored the inhibitory effects of these teas on UVB-induced carcinogenesis. In additional studies, topical application of a green tea polyphenol fraction after each UVB application inhibited UVB-induced tumorigenesis. The results indicate that caffeine contributes in an important way to the inhibitory effects of green and black tea on UVB-induced complete carcinogenesis.
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